The Southwest Partnership will soon be home to bike boulevards: neighborhood streets made safer for bicyclists through improvements such as roundabouts, speed humps with cutouts for bikes, and improved signage making drivers aware that bicyclists will be using the street. The boulevard network, along Hollins St. and connecting streets will not only make bicycling in …
Schlonté McGee is an Americorps VISTA working with Strong City Baltimore and on assignment with the Southwest Partnership (SWP). Schlonté will help us establish self-sustaining, effective, trained, and coordinated communication network made up of 10 area residents in each neighborhood and 5 in Barre Circle. This network will have access to a library of resources …
Organizations evolve. Communities evolve. And the willingness to embrace that evolution can represent either the death or life of a community or organization. For those communities and organizations that chose to embrace evolution, they must also embrace the process. The first step is formation – coming together to create a vision and mission. This is …
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In many ways houses, and the people who live in them, are the heart of a community. Making sure that everyone who lives, or wants to live, in the Southwest Partnership community has access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing is the role of the Southwest Partnership Housing Committee. The Housing Committee develops vacant housing, attracts …
Awesome neighborhoods are safe neighborhoods: for everyone who lives and visits. The Southwest Partnership Public Safety Committee works with community members, visitors, businesses, anchor institutions, and the police department to build the infrastructure, relationships, and programs needed to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. In 2016, the Committee’s goals are to increase lighting and cameras …
Great neighborhoods have great history–and the Southwest Partnership neighborhoods are some of the most historic in Baltimore. From the B&O Railroad to the Mount Clare Mansion House, Union and Franklin Square Parks to Hollins Market, and the HL Mencken to Edgar Allan Poe Houses there’s history everywhere you look. The Southwest Partnership Historic Preservation Committee …
Clean, green, vibrant, and walkable streets and public spaces make an awesome neighborhood for residents, businesses, and visitors. The Southwest Partnership’s Safe, Vibrant, and Walkable Streets Committee works to make sure streets and public spaces are clean and green, safe for all modes of transportation, and beautiful spaces for our community members to travel and gather. …
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Increasing access to work and strengthening schools are central to building awesome neighborhoods. The Southwest Partnership’s Education and Workforce Development Committee works hard to connect area residents with job training programs, job-readiness support and good, local jobs while also working with our area schools to meet their needs by providing resources and opportunities to …
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Michael Seipp, our Executive Director, writes about the tremendous opportunity provided by the Maryland Targeted Community Investment Fund: A $50 million opportunity Could strategic investments help rebuild the city? The Rev. Donte L. Hickman, in a poignant commentary (“Reconciling the two Baltimores,” May 8), described the divides that exist in our great city. He …
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The lot at 1106-1108 W. Baltimore St. is looking a little spiffier these days! Thanks to the Bon Secours Clean and Green Team, the Poppleton Now! neighborhood association, and the Southwest Partnership Safe, Vibrant, and Walkable Streets Committee the vacant lots next to the Lord Baltimore Theater have gotten a clean up and a mow. …
